In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
BEN HOROWITZDon’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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